Check Your Understanding: The Landscape

Answer from memory first, then check the key. Score one point per question. A score of 4 out of 5 passes. Below that, reread the lessons listed under the key.

Questions

• 1. Who holds the plan in a workflow, and who holds it in an agent?
• 2. Name one task where a fixed workflow beats an agent.
• 3. What are the four numbers in the use-case score?
• 4. Why does a Safety score of 1 rule out a first project?
• 5. Write the done-test for your chosen use case.

Answer Key

• 1. A workflow's plan is written ahead of time by you. An agent makes up the plan as it goes.
• 2. Any task with fixed steps and a predictable input, such as a weekly report from the same spreadsheet.
• 3. Frequency, time, ease of checking and safety, each 1 to 5, multiplied.
• 4. A mistake would cost money or trust, so the first project must have cheap, private failure.
• 5. Correct if it says what output exists, by when, and how you check it.

Where to Reread

• Prompts, Workflows, Agents and Skills
• What Agents Can and Cannot Do Reliably
• Choose Your First Business Use Case